History

Cool history map shows the approximate dates (BC) of the adoption of the spoke-wheeled chariot. Source: https://t.co/HCORFtAYbf https://t.co/xa2YF2MPq7

— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) October 2, 2026

 

An Insight

This is your daily reminder that language in children's books is significantly richer than language in our daily conversations with children. If you want your kids to have a large vocabulary going into school, you must read to them.

— Karen Vaites (@karenvaites) October 7, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

🚨 BREAKING: In an incredible moment, Sec. Marco Rubio just WALKED OUT in front of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece to demand a resurgence of Western Civilization values and against mass 3rd world migration And he's doing it at the BIRTHPLACE of the West. Inject this into my veins. 🔥🔥 "The imagination of the western world. GENERATIONS of our statesmen...have looked to [Acropolis] with wonder, with awe." "2.5 centuries after the founding of the American Republic...I stand here today as a Secretary of State of that republic...I stand here to testify to a debt that no lapse of time, no distance of space can ever extinguish." "The history of America, of my country, is covered with the fingerprints of antiquity. Greece is literally carved into the architecture of our government." This speech is pure gold.

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 7, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

Honey badgers are Irish?

— William M Briggs - Statistician to the Stars! (@FamedCelebrity) October 6, 2026

 

Data Talks

Blocking gas infrastructure in New England hasn’t caused renewables to magically sprout, it just means that electricity is expensive to “electrify everything” is unattractive. We need a better strategy. https://t.co/7fUfWGcT0S https://t.co/TxALQdbh58

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 6, 2026

 

The Fermentary's Garden, 2023 by Henry Glavin

The Fermentary's Garden, 2023 by Henry Glavin (America, 1991 - ) 

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History

This is real footage of Claude Monet painting beside his famous water lily pond in Giverny https://t.co/nScavg6ar2

— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) October 7, 2026

 

An Insight

The most jacked I’ve ever been was when I trained at this gym full of guys on steroids. I’ve been told that some of them were bikers. From looking at them, not particularly hard to believe. At the time, I estimated that on any given day, one out of four guys was on gear. I had a few friends openly on it, so I knew what to look for: traps and shoulders blowing up suddenly, skin texture, acne, etc. Despite being natural, I got good gains because everyone trained hard. If you trained like a wuss, you felt out of place. Overcoming resistance was the path of least resistance. From this experience, I implicitly understood that the most important part of any human system was the people in it. I’ve trained at better-equipped gyms, but I’ve never gotten as jacked as I did training there. This gym had a culture of hard work because the people in it were hard. There’s individual-level advice everywhere about what you should do to get ahead in life, but the best advice I can give you is collective-level: work among people whose goals you share, people who will reward you for your commitment and shame you for your lack thereof

— William Meijer (@williameijer) October 6, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

Shiny new shoes 🦆🐾💙 https://t.co/mYSR95IX7L

— Cosmic Gaia (@CosmicGaiaX) October 6, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

Facilities did an office inspection and found the mini-fridge under my desk. “Personal appliances are prohibited.” They put a red removal sticker on it. I removed the sticker. Put on an IT asset tag. Ran an Ethernet cable from the back of the fridge into the wall. Updated inventory: DEVICE: SRV-THERMAL-04 TYPE: Auxiliary cooling appliance OWNER: Infrastructure CRITICALITY: High Facilities came back. Saw the asset tag. Saw the network cable. Wouldn’t touch it. Three months later Security found SRV-THERMAL-04 during an audit. They asked what business service it supports. I opened the fridge. Six Diet Cokes. Two Red Bulls. String cheese. I told them it maintains temperature-sensitive IT assets. Security asked why it has never transmitted a single packet. “Air-gapped.” They nodded. The fridge passed the audit. It is now officially classified as critical infrastructure.

— Derek Devicemanager (@IT_unhinged) October 6, 2026